The Starship Enterprise boldly goes... to the Lake District: Teenager is seemingly beamed up off mountain in optical illusion of rescue heroics
Cumbria: The final frontier. This appears to be the latest voyage of the Starship Enterprise.
Its mission: To seek out a stricken teenager on a hillside in the Lake District and boldly pluck her to safety.
And, as the captain's log will no doubt record, it was a triumph. With spinning rotors and flashing lights against the night sky mimicking Captain Kirk's spaceship, this Coastguard helicopter was called in by the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team to winch up a girl who had fallen, injuring her knee and head.
She is now recovering well. The team leader of Keswick Mountain Rescue Team Chris Higgins captured a dramatic shot of the Coastguard's search and rescue helicopter on Saturday night.
With spinning rotors and flashing lights against the night sky mimicking Captain Kirk's spaceship, this Coastguard helicopter was called in by the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team to winch up a girl who had fallen, injuring her knee and head
After sharing a snap of the late-night rescue on Facebook, stunned users flooded the comments section saying they thought they'd spotted the famous fictional spacecraft from Star Trek - joking they needed their eyes tested.
The 55-year-old joked that although 'beaming' people to safety like Scotty would save the team from scrambling to late-night calls, the technology is still some way off.
Chris said: 'It would be fantastic if we had a spaceship that could just beam people up from any trouble in the mountains and transfer them to safety.
'I think that technology is a bit of a way away yet, but it would certainly save us getting out of bed in the early hours of the morning to help people if we could invest in one of those spaceships.
'The comments from people saying it was the Starship Enterprise gave me a good laugh.'
Keswick MRT scrambled to a call-out at 8.30pm after a family of four were separated near the summit of Blencathra in Keswick, Cumbria.
Cumbria: The final frontier. This appears to be the latest voyage of the Starship Enterprise
The family's separated teenage daughter had fallen and sustained minor injuries to her knee and head, but managed to WhatsApp her location to her parents via digital addressing system What3Words (W3W).
The teen was between Hall's Fell and Doddick Fell and as the terrain is known to be difficult the 15-strong team requested the Coastguard's help.
Their search and rescue helicopter located her, directed the MRT team to the scene via radio and winched her to safety, where she was reunited with her family.
Chris said: 'With a lot of people having to holiday in the UK the number of visitors in the Lake District National Park, and I imagine all the national parks, has skyrocketed.
'Inevitably because of the numbers and some of the people going out into the hills aren't as experienced they're going out without the knowledge, experience or equipment to best look after themselves.
'We had two call-outs on the same night, they're coming in thick and fast at the minute.
'Calling the Coastguard doesn't happen very often, they're a limited resource and we think long and hard about when we choose to call them because they might be needed somewhere else.
'We try to take photographs of all of our rescues because it generates public interest and we rely on public donations.
'At the time I just thought it was a fantastic shot - for the crew of the helicopter to position their aircraft in that position demands a great amount of skill.
'Obviously when you're taking a photograph of a moving aircraft you can't predict how it's going to come out in terms of what the spinning rotors and flashing lights are going to be like.
'It was dramatic to be there and I just hoped the photograph captured some of the drama of the scene.'